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Aaron Parecki:
Just launched http://news.indiewebcamp.com - a news aggregator for #indieweb related articles. To submit a post, send a webmention from a post on your own domain. To comment, write a note on your own domain and send a webmention!

tryghost.org looks interesting from an #indieweb point of view, but if they are so open, where is the code? Where is the CC-0 documentation? Why does clicking “Try It” pop up a modal asking you to give them money (dark pattern, much?) — if it’s so open, be honest!

Aaron Parecki woah, brilliant! Love the fact you're self hosting video too — what’s your workflow for that? I was thinking of building a mandrill-backed email inbox for photo and video upload so I can post from iOS really easily

In my reply contexts I am not wanting to embed 3rd party HTML in my site, so I take the p-summary and strip tags. But, I want embedded h-cards to be expanded just like at-mentions on twitter. Pseudocode:

let h-card = canonical JSON structure for a note, with .summary as a plaintext representation of the content;
for item in h-card.children:
if not in_array('h-card', item.type) continue;
let html = HTML representation of the child from properties.url, name, etc;
replace item.value in h-card.summary with html

sandeepshetty pingback, but Aaron Parecki is sending/accepting webmention (also built a webmention -> pingback proxy) and the rest of us are working on it. General consensus is that it’s way easier than pingback :)

Just hooked up my #indieweb notes to Brennan Novak’s rather awesome @emoome sentiment analysis API! So all my notes will have automated emotion/language analysis applied now, which I can query through machine tags.

At the moment I’m not publicly showing this data, but if you can read HTML it’s in the source (machine tags not shown by default) and if you can read JSON, add .json onto the end of the URL.

Robin Andrews you’ve gone from having no website to setting up your #indieweb identity, with POSSEing of posts out to social networks, in what — two months? Your brain has the right to be frazzled :) Well done, keep it up!

I hadn’t checked my mentions for a few days, then I get this from Laurent Eschenauer and find that I’ve had pingbacks from some other people too! All of whom have chosen to mention me on their own domain. I am honoured. This stuff works :) #indieweb

And the compliment of that #universallaw: the simpler the text-publishing service, the more interesting uses it’s users will put it to, provided it paves their cow paths (e.g. Twitter with RTs, #hashtags and @-replies).

Give users constraints and simplicity, see what they do, then solidify that functionality — or, from an #indieweb point of view, give yourself constraints, then pave your solitary cowpaths.